Fonds SC31 - Indian Accounts or Response Forms

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GB 891 SC31

Titre

Indian Accounts or Response Forms

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  • [1800 - 1890] (Création/Production)

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Étendue matérielle et support

1 folder handwritten

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Histoire archivistique

These papers were created in India. It is unknown how they came to be part of the Royal Asiatic Society's collections.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

The source of acquisition is unknown.

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Portée et contenu

A series of accounts or response forms concerning Indian districts. These are handwritten on Indian paper and the accounts are accompanied by letters. One of these has been identified as an 'arzee' or response form from a junior to a senior. The junior identifies himself as Syed Mehdi Hasan and he is responding to a question posed as to whether or not the provinces demarcated in the Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Faz still exist. The response is that there are many changes which Syed Mehdi Hasan then lists. This letter is dated to 1844.

Further material has yet to be identified. One sheet bears the English words 'Benares and Mirzapore' (Varanasi and Mirzapur).

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Conditions d’accès

Open. Please contact the archivist. Details can be found here : https://royalasiaticarchives.org/. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.

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  • ourdou

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    Note

    The interpretative details were provided by Naveena Naqui, Assistant Professor of Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, University of British Colombia, in 2015.

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    gb891-sc31

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        Archivist's note

        These papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2022.

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